Human thigh bone daggers were hot property

[Still Waters]

New Guinea warriors harvested thigh bones from their dead fathers to fashion into ornamental but deadly daggers used to kill and maim enemies, sometimes to eat them.

But why use human bone when equally lethal daggers were made from the shin bones of large, flightless birds called cassowaries—abundant, and easier to catch and kill?

Experts have long hesitated between inherent bone ruggedness and symbolism as the reason for the proclivity.

On Wednesday, an unusual study concluded that human thigh bone did not make for better dagger material, but was rather a symbol of prestige.

https://phys.org/news/2018-04-guinea-human-thigh-bone-daggers.html

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Human Thigh Bones Make The Best Bone Daggers, in Case You Were Wondering

https://www.sciencealert.com/human-thigh-bones-best-bone-daggers-papua-new-guinea-sipek

[Piney]

My people made Elk bone daggers.